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Steve’s small engines on YouTube is not a bad starting point for chainsaw stuff

I burn a lot of goat willow, it’s free, so it’s great fire wood.

Not quite answering your question re timber type but I recently saw used in an entertaining room and then for sale in B&Q were proper sound proof flat panels but with strips of vertical wood guessing 20 x 20mm strips, I thought it looked smart, I will have a search and see if I can get a pic. I'm thinking could you make your own with your own timber buy the acoustic material and add your timber.

Sorry edited my 2nd post while you were posting, damaged trees get removed as they are usually a hazard or a hazard waiting to happen. Trees close to each other don’t bother me as much.

PS forgot to add, the knowledge, advice, contacts, help I have received from this forum has been a huge help so stick around. Also by wind damaged I mean trees that have blown over, trees that have snapped, trees that are now leaning on others, the hung up ones and leaners can take a bit of thinking about if you are not used to it to enable it to be done safely. Re chainsaws I currently have 3 saws of different sizes, which would probably be classified as “farm” saws which aren’t as good as the pro saws that most of them use on here but are better than the £100 diy standard saws, I am not on the saw for 8 hours a day though, probably about 3 or 4 hours a week so a farm saw is good enough for me, Stihl or a Husky are the ones to go for.

My woods look very similar to yours, when I first got the place I got an environmental guy in to give advice as we were wanting it to be a bit of a nature haven but be safe (right to roam in Scotland) and be able to keep me in fire wood. The advice was: Remove and destroy the rhododendrons, ongoing and constant battle. Keep unofficial natural paths clear. Remove trees that get damaged in wind, this is what keeps me supplied in fire wood, about 10 cube a year. Rhoddy gets burnt on site after it gets pulled up and piled up and dried out for a bit. Big bits do go to my firewood cubes. The smaller branches from the trees that get sorted out get piled up in brash piles for little nature havens. I used a quad bike and trailer for extracting the timber out. Needless to say the safe use of a chainsaw is a must, no chance of doing it by hand in my lifetime. Some areas of my place are a bit wet and boggy so a decent 4wd with diff lock quad bike was essential for me.

I don’t like to mix my coal and wood fires, as my coal ash and clinkers go on the track and the wood ash goes on the forest floor especially where the rhododendrons have been removed.

Just out of interest how do you power your mill, I see it is 3 phase do you bring your own generator or do you need a 3 phase supply wher3 you set up.

I use the Dewalt power tools and have been thinking about an impact gun for a while, this thread has gave me the kick I need, will have a look in 2 weeks time at the January sales and see if there is and Dewalt impacts on offer.

To save getting my torque wrench out I usually just say click click out load with what ever I am using and hey presto it is torqued up perfectly.

What have you been feeding him😀 or did he sneak some extras.

I tend to use my 6” and 10” shifters the most, but as you can see from my pic the 6” shifter on my tool board is am imposter.

They look like Bahco shifters, which in my mind are the best ones out there, wonder if Blue Point have got Bahco to make them for them.

I agree with Stubby, I never trust welded cast iron, we had at best mixed results with getting cast parts welded at work, I would take the £300 hit.